Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-02-09
NEWS CONDENSED.
Telegraphic Summary Of Impor.
tant Happenings at Home
and Abroad.
THE EAST.

THE most frightful railroad accident
since the Ashtabnla disaster occurred on
the Vermont Central near Woodstock, VT,
about o'clock of the morning of the 9TH.
A passenger train composed mostly of
sleeping cars, bearing excursionsts from
Boston and Springfield, Mass. TO the ice
carnival Mt Montreal, was hurled ly
broken rail from bridge over VIII tie RIVER
onto the ice below, dist,nce of fifty feet
One of the overturned passenger coaches
ut once took fire, and soon the entire train
was ablaze. The ice was very thick and
no water could he had with which to check
the flames. 1t is thought the number
killed and pershing in the flames will
reach sixty. But few of the remains can
he recognized.
AT Patterson, n j., the Harmony Mills,
devoted to the manufacture of mosquito
netting. was damaged by fire to the amount
of $250,000.
THE Commiss oner Of Patents at WASH
ington, in h s annual report, states that the
total number of applications filed during
the last calendar year requiring investsa-
ton and action was Al ,442; and the num-
Der of patents issued was 23,915. The tc-
tai receipts were Sl,l54, 55l, and expendi-
lures $902, SOB, leaving n balance of re-
ceipts over expenditures of $l62,04S. The
amount 10 the credit of the Treasury was
S3.107, 453.
DISPATCHES ssy that an immense ice
gorge has been formel in the Delaware
River, near Shawnee, Pa, above Delaware
Gap. The ice is piled up to the height of
fifty feet and the water has been forced
out of its natural channel and veitiowing
the lowlands. Many houses are sub
merged. Should there be sudden thaw
:be loss Of property through the valley
would be appalling.
The loss by the burn NJ of the State In
dustrial School at Rochester, n y, is now
estimated at 100000; no insurance. The
female department of the building was to-
tally destroyed with contents. Great loss
| of life was lut narrowly averted.
IT has been agreed by the Naval Sub
Committee on Construction--and the agree
ment will doubtless receive the approval OF
the full committee---to recommend an ap-
preparation for the construct on of two
1900 ton cruisers of the Newark type,
| five l.7O0-ton gunboats patterned after gun
boat mo. l." and three sea-going torpedo
| boats.
The decrease in the public debt for JAN
nary is estimated by treasury officials at
| S9,00O,00O.
A GREAT revival is in progress in DR..
Talmage's church in Brooklyn. So far
1000 persons have been converted.
AT Portsmouth, Ohio, during the burn
| ing of a saloon. Thomas Murphy stood at
second-story window and told the
crowd in the street that lie would rather
burn than jump. To that idea he sacri-
| feed his life.
THE Coroner's Jury decided that Ray
mond Belmont, son of the New York
banker, accidentally killed himself, and
| that it was not case of suici 'e.
| The steamer Sir John burned just out
the st. John. N. b., harbor on the morn
| ing of the 29th. The crew of twenty men
were found huddled together on the rocks
| at Black Point. Their clothes were frozen
| to their bodies and they were suffering ter
! ribly. 1t was found that five were so badly
! burned, including the captain, that they
| cannot live. The fire broke out in the
! galley at midnight from an overturned
lamp. The steward was drowned while
swimming ashore. The rest got to land by
| line carried ashore by the captain.